redlorryyellow

26 karma · joined August 16, 2018

redlorryyellow··on Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

I'm a software engineer, my work is done on work VMs, all my personal projects (coding and music) are done locally and not backed up. I occasionally copy my entire SSD over to a large HDD, but haven't done it for a couple of years. It's entirely plausible.

redlorryyellow··on Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

if I was only reachable by mail they'd send me letters.

Based on your comments above, I'd bet a lot of money that they wouldn't...

redlorryyellow··on United Kingdom Budget Visualization

If you look at previous years there is a lot more breakdown

redlorryyellow··on Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them

Thom's tour sold out in seconds, they don't need any extra publicity.

redlorryyellow··on Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them

3. is incorrect. the leaker wasn't trying to extort, he was trying to sell individual tracks. He then just released the whole thing online, posing as Hoserama, to try and save face. So we have had the leaks for over a week now.

redlorryyellow··on Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them

We didn't, the files were originally leaked last Wednesday

redlorryyellow··on Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

It said anyone who has used the "view as" may have been accessed

redlorryyellow··on Jobs at Google (1999)

Charlie Ayers I believe. Ended up with $26 million in stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers

redlorryyellow··on Katie's New Face

No, you don't need a gun, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier, and the extra effort involved to do it without a gun often stops people.

redlorryyellow··on Katie's New Face

This is a point that a lot of people don't think about. America's gun laws make it a lot easier to attempt suicide, while putting less thought in about the act.

I am British, and have contemplated it numerous times, but the effort involved in driving to a cliff, or creating a noose, or just the worry about doing it wrong, has stopped me.

If it were as simple as (getting drunk and) pulling a trigger, I would no longer be here.